Mobina Hashmi

Mobina Hashmi draws upon cultural studies, critical media studies, cultural geography, postcolonial studies, science & technology studies, and critical race studies. Hashmi's current research focuses on cyborgs as one paradigm for new modes of citizenship as it is being articulated by countries, corporations and institutions in an increasingly interconnected and technologized global context. Hashmi is particularly interested in how the cyborg-subjects of new information and labor technologies are embodied as raced, gendered and national subjects in media representations. Teaching interests include media criticism and history, new media technologies and society, globalization and media, gender and media, race and media, cultural studies, media and national identity, and science-fiction film and television.

Areas of Expertise:

Hashmi is interested in science fiction and the cultural politics of labor; the representation of work/labor on television; and the changing relationship between technologies of work and citizenship in the context of globalization.

"At the Limits of Discourse: Political Talk in Drag on Late Night Show with Begum Nawazish Ali." South Asian Popular Culture. Republished in: Punathambekar, A., & Kumar, S. (Eds.). (2014). Television at Large in South Asia. Routledge.
(Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011

"Outsourcing the American Dream? Representing the Stakes of IT Globalizaion in America." Economic and Political Weekly, May. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"Private Publics: New Media and Performances of Pakistani Identity from Party Videos to Geo News? Conference on New Media and Social Change in Pakistan, Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, April 3, 2015.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015

?Differing realities of work on U.S. television.? Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism. De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K. June, 2013. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013

"Whose Economic Health Do We Care About Anyway? News Coverage of Unemployment in the
1980s and the Present." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. New Orleans, March 10-13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

"Performance Anxieties: White Masculinity and American Citizenship in the 1980s." Representing Citizenship: The 6th Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies at the Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University. Detroit, March 27-28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Learning to Be a Normal Girl: The Technology of Gender on 'My Life as a Teenage Robot.'" Console-ing Passions: The International Conference on Feminism and Television, Video, Audio. and New Media. Santa Barbara, Calif., April 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"White, Male and Cyborg: Imagining a New American for the Global Era." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Philadelphia, March 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

Other Professional Activities

"Audiences with an Agenda: Audience Research on TV and the Web" panel respondent. The New York State Communication Association 65th Annual Conference. Hudson Valley, N.Y., October. 2007